The "Never Again" State of Israel: The Emergence of the Holocaust as a Core Feature of Israeli Identity and Its Four Incongruent Voices

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 125-143

  Klar, Yechiel ^a   Schori Eyal, Noa ^b   Klar, Yonat ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NATIONAL IDENTITY; PERCEPTION; POST-WAR; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL IMPACT;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84874801865     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/josi.12007     Document Type: Article

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